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Pork — For other uses, see Pork (disambiguation). Pork tenderloin served French style … Wikipedia
Pork tapeworm — Taenia solium (also called the armed tapeworm or the measly tapeworm), a worm contracted from undercooked or measly pork, pork infected with the larval forms of the tapeworm. The worm can grow to be 3 6 feet (0.9 1.8 meters) long in the human… … Medical dictionary
Pork tapeworm — Taxobox name = Taenia solium image width = 200px image caption = Scolex of Taenia solium regnum = Animalia phylum = Platyhelminthes classis = Cestoda ordo = Cyclophyllidea familia = Taeniidae genus = Taenia species = T. solium binomial = Taenia… … Wikipedia
worm — 1. In anatomy, any structure resembling a w., e.g., the midline part of the cerebellum in the forms of “vermis” and “lumbrical.” 2. Term once used to designate any member of the invertebrate group or former subkingdom Vermes, a collective term … Medical dictionary
pork tapeworm — Tapeworm Tape worm , n. (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to T[ae]nia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tapeworm, pork — Taenia solium (also called the armed tapeworm or the measly tapeworm), a worm contracted from undercooked or measly pork, pork infected with the larval forms of the tapeworm. The worm can grow to be 3 6 feet (0.9 1.8 meters) long in the human… … Medical dictionary
Parasitic worm — See also Parasitic worm (disambiguation) Parasitic worms or helminths are a division of eukaroytic parasites that, unlike external parasites such as lice and fleas, live inside their host.cite journal |author=Maizels RM, Yazdanbakhsh M… … Wikipedia
tape|worm — «TAYP WURM», noun. a long, flat worm that lives as a parasite in the intestines of man and other vertebrates; cestode. Tapeworms consist of many separate parts and have no digestive tract. »Man gets his commonest tapeworms from insufficiently… … Useful english dictionary
bladder worm — Cysticerce Cys ti*cerce (s?s t? s?rs), Cysticercus Cys ti*cer cus ( s?r k?s), n. [NL. cysticercus, fr. Gr. ???? bladder + ke rkos tail: cf. F. cysticerque.] (Zo[ o]l.) The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Flesh worm — Flesh Flesh (fl[e^]sh), n. [OE. flesch, flesc, AS. fl[=ae]sc; akin to OFries. fl[=a]sk, D. vleesch, OS. fl[=e]sk, OHG. fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, bacon, pork, Sw. fl[ a]sk.] 1. The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
